Combined tie-plate and rail-brace.



" c. MOTTER.

COMBINED TIE PLATE AND RAIL BRACE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 7, I917 Patented Nov. 13, 1917.

CHARLES MOTTER, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

COMBINED TIE-PLATE AND RAIL-BRACE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 13, 1917.

Application filed March '7, 1917. Serial No. 153,097. I

To all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES MOTTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combined Tie- Plates and Rail-Braces, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in a combined tie plate and rail brace.

An object of the invention is to produce a tie plate upon which the rail rests and which has means associated therewith whereby to lock the rail upon the said plate to hold the rail against movement in a lateral or tilting direction but at the same time to permit of the longitudinal movement incident to the expansion and contraction.

It is a further object of the invention to produce a tie plate having a centrally arranged rib extended for a portion of the length thereof, one end of said rib being adapted to contact with the edge of a rail, said plate outward of the referred to end of the rib being formed with an inturned flanged portion or lip designed to receive the base portion of a brace member that engages with a rail upon the outer side of said rail, means comprising spikes securing the plate to the tie, certain of said spikes contacting with the inner edge of the rail, while one or more of the remaining spikes pass through the referred to lip or flange to engage with the rail brace to move the same in the direction of the rail and at the same time secure the said brace to the plate.

With the above and other objects in view the improvement resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and falling within the scope of the appended claim.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustratthe application of the improvement,

ig. 2 is a central vertical longitudinal sectional view through the same,

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the plate with the rail brace removed, and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the rail brace.

Referring now to the drawing in detail, the numeral 1 designates an ordinary wooden tie upon which is arranged a plate 2 constructed in accordance with this invention. The plate 2, adjacent what I will term the rail i,

inner end thereof is centrally formed with an upstruck rib 3, the under face of the said rib being hollow. The inner end of the rib is adapted to contact with the inner edge of the base flange of the rail 4:, and the plate 2 at the opposite sides of the rib at the terminal of the said rib is provided with openings through which are passed spikes 5 that also engage with the referred to inner edge of the base of the rail 4. The plate 2, upon its inner end, but outward of the rib 3 is provided with a central opening through which passes a spike 6, the said spikes 5 and 6, of course, entering the tie 1. The plate 2 upon its outer end is centrally provided with an angular overlying member provid ing a hook-shaped tongue 7, and the said tongue is provided with one or more openings which aline with similar openings in the plate 2. The lip 7 is adapted to receive the reduced base portion 8 of a rail brace 9, the inner surface of the said brace being shaped to engage in the fishing space and with the head of the rail,as well as with the outer edge of the base flange. The base 8 of the member 9 is of a less length than the distance between the inner wall of the lip 7 and the outer edge of the base of the when the said rail is arranged upon its seat. The base 8 is provided upon its outer edge with a notch 8, while the lip 7 and the plate 2 directly below the said lip are provided with registering openings. Through these openings is adapted to be passed the shank of a spike 10, and the pointed end of the said spike is designed to be received in the notch 8 of the base of the rail brace 9 before the said spike passes through the opening in the plate 2, so that one of the faces of the said spike 1O engaging with the inner wall of the notch 8' will move the member 9 longitudinally to bring the base 8 thereof outward of the lip 7 and to cause the said brace to contact beneath the head of the rail and with the longitudinal edge of the base of the said rail, as illustrated in both Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing. The horizontally straight plane provided by the rib 3 forms an effective bearing surface for switch points, so that the device is admirably adapted for use in this connection.

From the above description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the simplicity of the device, as well as the ad vantages thereof will, it is thought, be perfectly apparent to those killed in the art to Copies or this patent may be obtained or five cents each, by

brace including a base portion which is received by the lip and which engages with the base and is received in the fishing space of the rail, a securing element passing through the lip and plate and engaging with the base of the brace to move the latter toward the rail, securing elements passing through the plate and entering the tie, and certain of said securing elements being disposed to the opposite side of the rib and engaging with one of the edges of the base flange of the 25 rail.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

CHARLES MOTTER.

addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. O. 

